Word: cortland
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Growing up in Cortland, N.Y., Bertini originally wanted to be a music teacher but then got interested in government service. She majored in political science at the State University of New York in Albany and later did a fellowship at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. She jumped at the WFP post "because jobs like this come once in a lifetime." Since 1988 she's been married to Thomas Haskell, a photographer who enjoys globe trotting with her (although he once got separated from a WFP motorcade in Mogadishu and was held at gunpoint...
...Harvard's cross country teams run towards their ultimate finish line at the NCAA Championships, hosted by Iowa State in late November, both the Crimson men's and women's teams will return to Van Cortland Park for the Heptagonal Championships on Oct. 27 and the NCAA district qualifier...
...Nathaniel Thayer wanted a club where wine and liquor would be available and where a gentleman could be invited to dine. The women who defected from the Mayflower were weary of the puritanical restrictions. When the Chilton was granted a liquor license in 1911, it was denounced by Rev. Cortland Myers as a “pest” and the “vestibule of Hell.” “Drinking and smoking cigarettes by women,” he said, “is the most disgusting influence in this city.” The ladies...